{"id":5,"date":"2012-10-25T22:04:15","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T22:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/template-faculty01\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2016-10-17T17:31:02","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T17:31:02","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/robert-reimer\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/robert-reimer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/526\/2012\/10\/RobertReimer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-41 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/robert-reimer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/526\/2012\/10\/RobertReimer-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Reimer\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/robert-reimer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/526\/2012\/10\/RobertReimer-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/robert-reimer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/526\/2012\/10\/RobertReimer-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/robert-reimer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/526\/2012\/10\/RobertReimer-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Reimer is Director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/filmstudies.uncc.edu\/\">Film Studies Program<\/a>, a former Chair of the Department of Languages and Culture Studies and currently teaches full time in the Department. \u00a0In 2013-2015, he served as\u00a0an exchange professor to the Universit\u00e9 de Limoges in Limoges, France.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Education<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ph.D., University of Kansas (1971)<\/li>\n<li>M.A., University of Kansas (1968)<\/li>\n<li>B.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison (1965)<\/li>\n<li>University of Stuttgart, 1968-1969 (Exchange student)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Appointments<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>University of North Carolina\u00a0at\u00a0Charlotte<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Chair of Languages and Culture Studies 2006-2013<br \/>\nFull Professor 1995-<br \/>\nInterim Chair of Foreign Languages 1991-1993<br \/>\nAssociate Professor 1976-1995<br \/>\nAssistant Professor, 1971-1976<\/p>\n<p><strong>P\u00e4dagogische Hochschule (College of Education), Ludwigsburg, Federal Republic of Germany:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Fulbright Senior Lecturer, 1984-85<br \/>\nExchange Professor Fall 1997<br \/>\nExchange Professor Fall 2005<\/p>\n<p>Director: UNC\u00a0Charlotte Kingston Program 2002-2003 (Kingston, England)<\/p>\n<p><strong><strong>Publications and Research<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Books<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Historical Dictionary of Holocaust Cinema.\u00a0<\/em>Lanham, Maryland and Plymouth, UK: The Scarecrow Press, 2012, 245 pages (co-authored with Carol J. Reimer).<\/p>\n<p><em>Historical Dictionary of German Cinema<\/em>. Lanham, Maryland and Plymouth, UK: The Scarecrow Press, 2008, 467 pages (Co-authored with Carol J. Reimer.)<\/p>\n<p><em>Arbeitsbuch zu German Culture through Film<\/em>. Newburyport, M.A.: Focus Publishing 2006, 276 pages (Co-authored with Reinhard Zachau).<\/p>\n<p><em>German Culture through Film<\/em>. Newburyport, M.A.: Focus Publishing, 2005, 255 pages (Co-authored with Reinhard Zachau and Margit Sinka).<\/p>\n<p><em>Cultural History through a National Socialist Lens<\/em>:\u00a0<em>Essays on the Cinema of the Third Reich<\/em>, (editor).\u00a0 Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2000.<\/p>\n<p><em>Nazi-Retro Film: How German Narrative Cinema Remembers the Past<\/em>.\u00a0 New York: Twayne Publishers, 1992, 256 pages (Co-authored with Carol J. Reimer).<\/p>\n<p><em>Environmental Debate in the USA: Cleaning Up Tomorrow?<\/em>\u00a0 Munich: Bayerischer Schulbuch-Verlag, 1988, 88 pages.\u00a0 (An English Language Reader co-authored and edited with Peter D\u00f6rfel.)<\/p>\n<p><em>Lehrerband zu Environmental Debate in the USA<\/em>.\u00a0 Munich: Bayerischer Schulbuch Verlag, 2nd. edition, 1993, 77 pages.\u00a0 (Teachers&#8217; Manual to reader cited above, co-authored with Peter D\u00f6rfel)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Articles, Essays, Encyclopedia Entries, and Book Reviews (last ten years)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoes Laughter Make the Crime Disappear?: A Survey of Cinematic Images of Hitler and the Nazis, 1940-2007.\u201d (7700 words). Senses of Cinema (2009), an electronic film journal found at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/archive.sensesofcinema.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/archive.sensesofcinema.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLeni Riefenstahl\u2019s\u00a0<em>Triumph des Willens<\/em>.\u201d In\u00a0<em>Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film<\/em>, 3 vols., ed. Ian Aitken. New York and London: Routledge, 2006. pages 1341-1344.<\/p>\n<p>Leni Riefenstahl\u2019s\u00a0<em>Olympia<\/em>.\u201d In\u00a0<em>Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film<\/em>, 3 vols., ed. Ian Aitken. New York and London: Routledge, 2006. pages 1012-1015.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cErwin Leiser\u2019s\u00a0<em>Mein Kampf<\/em>.\u201d In\u00a0<em>Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film<\/em>, 3 vols., ed. Ian Aitken. New York and London: Routledge, 2006. pages 884-886.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKatrin Seybold.\u201d In\u00a0<em>Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film<\/em>, 3 vols., ed. Ian Aitken. New York and London: Routledge, 2006. pages 1211-1212.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Looking for a Moral.\u00a0 Why America Didn&#8217;t Laugh: Analysis of Comedic Structure in Doris D\u00f6rrie&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Me and Him<\/em>.&#8221; 95-105. In\u00a0<em>Straight through the Heart: Doris D\u00f6rrie, German Filmmaker and Author<\/em>.\u00a0 Edited by Franz A. Birgel and Klaus Phillips.\u00a0 Scarecrow Press, 2004.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Removing the Mask: Doris D\u00f6rrie&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Erleuchtung Garantiert<\/em>.&#8221; 160-169. In Straight\u00a0<em>through the Heart: Doris D\u00f6rrie, German Filmmaker and Author<\/em>.\u00a0 Edited by Franz A. Birgel and Klaus Phillips.\u00a0 Scarecrow Press, 2004.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSelf-Inflicted Wounds? Why German Enrollments Are Dropping.\u201d 135-148.\u00a0<em>In Globalization and the Future of German<\/em>. Edited by Andreas Gardt and Bernd H\u00fcppauf.\u00a0 (Mouton de Gruyter, 2004).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPicture-Perfect War: An Analysis of Joseph Vilsmaier&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Stalingrad\u00a0<\/em>(1993).\u201d In\u00a0<em>Light Motives: German Popular Film in Perspective<\/em>, edited by Maggie MacCarthy and Randall Halle, Wayne State University Press, 2003.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Abschied von Sidonie: A Farewell Twice Visited: Analysis of Erich Hackl&#8217;s Novella and Karin Brandauer&#8217;s Film.&#8221; 138-155.\u00a0 In After<em>Postmodernism: Austrian Literature and Film in Transition<\/em>\u00a0(Studies in Austrian Literature, Culture, and Thought) edited by Willy Riemer, Ariadne, 2000.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Turning Inward: An Analysis of Helmut K\u00e4utner&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Auf Wiedersehen Franziska<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Romanze in Moll<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>Unter den Br\u00fccken<\/em>,&#8221;\u00a0 214-239.\u00a0 In\u00a0<em>Cultural History through a National Socialist Lens<\/em>.\u00a0 edited by Robert C. Reimer, Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2000.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Wasteland of the Free: How German Film Views America.&#8221; In\u00a0<em>The image of America in literature, media, and society<\/em>; selected papers from the 1999 conference of the\u00a0<em>Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery<\/em>. Edited by Will Wright and Steven Kaplan.\u00a0 Imprint Pueblo, Co: The Society, 1999.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLanguage Immersion: Learning from Past Mistakes. 32-40.\u00a0\u00a0<em>Fremdsprachenunterricht in der Grundschule<\/em>, ed. Hartmut Melenk and Hanspeter D\u00f6rfel (Schneider Verlag: Hohengehren, 1997).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A Comparison of Douglas Sirk&#8217;s\u00a0<em>All That Heaven Allows<\/em>\u00a0and R. W. Fassbinder&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Ali: Fear Eats the Soul:<\/em>\u00a0or How Hollywood&#8217;s New England Dropouts Became Germany&#8217;s Marginalized Other.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<em>Literature\/Film Quarterly<\/em>.\u00a0 (Vol. 24, No. 3, 1996), pp. 282-287.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers Presented (last 10 years)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">&#8220;From Fairy Tale to Horror: Strategies for Helping Viewers Remember the Past&#8221; at the symposium<em> Witness through Fiction: Holocaust, Conflict and Genocide in Cinema and Literatures,<\/em> <span style=\"font-family: Calibri\">April 9-11,\u00a0<\/span>2015.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSubtitling and Dubbing as Film Adaptation.\u201d Cultures of Translation: Adaptation in Film &amp; Performance Conference, Cardiff School of Creative &amp; Cultural Industries, Wales, UK,\u00a0June 26-28, 2008.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGoing, Going, Gone: The Cinematic Image of Adolf Hitler from\u00a0<em>The Great Dictator<\/em>\u00a0to\u00a0<em>Mein F\u00fchrer<\/em>.\u201d Foreign Language Film Conference, University of Southern Illinois, October 11-13, 2007.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Sonnenallee<\/em>:\u00a0 Life as an East German Cabaret or Divided Humor?\u201d Sixteenth\u00a0 Hollins Film Colloquium, 2004. (co-presenter, Andrea Rinke)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ula St\u00f6ckl&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Das alte Lied<\/em>: Same Old Song or Different Tune,&#8221; Twenty-Fifth Colloquium of Literature and Film, Morgantown West Virginia, October 12-14, 2000.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Food Causes Ulcers, Gas and Even Death: A Cataloguing of Dining Situations in the Films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder,&#8221; Conference on Food Representation in Literature, Film and the Other Arts, San Antonio, February 17-19, 2000.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The Wasteland of the Free: How German Film Views America.&#8221;\u00a0 Conference on Social Imagery in Literature and Film, Colorado Springs, March 11-13, 1999.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Echoes of Heimat on Post Unification German Television.&#8221;\u00a0 German Studies Association, Salt Lake City, October 8-11, 1998.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Helmut K\u00e4utner\u2019s Postwar Films and Their Reception.&#8221;\u00a0 Eleventh Hollins Film Colloquium, April 2-4, 1998.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Subverting Tunes: Helmut K\u00e4utner&#8217;s Use of Music in His National Socialist Films.&#8221;\u00a0 Tenth Hollins Film Colloquium, 3-6 April 1997.<em id=\"__mceDel\">\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Abschied von Sidonie, A Farewell Twice-Visited: Analysis of Erich Hackl&#8217;s Novella and Karin Brandauer&#8217;s Film.&#8221;\u00a0 Symposium: Crossing Cultural Bounds in Contemporary Austrian Literature and Film.\u00a0 University of Delaware, September 26-28, 1996.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Language Immersion: Learning from Past Mistakes.&#8221;\u00a0 Second Annual Ludwigsburg\/UNC\u00a0Charlotte Symposium, May 28-29, 1996.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Book Reviews<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Review of\u00a0<em>Flight of Fantasy: New Perspectives on Inner Emigration in German Literature<\/em>\u00a01933-1945. Neil H. Donahue and Doris Kirchner, eds. New York: Berghahn Books, 2003. In German Quarterly, Volume 78 # 4 (Fall 2005), pages 551-552.<\/p>\n<p>Review of\u00a0<em>Volker Schl\u00f6ndorff\u2019s Cinema: Adaptation, Politics, and the \u201cMovie Appropriate.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Hans-bernhard Moeller and George Lellis. Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press, 2002. In\u00a0<em>Monatshefte<\/em>, Volume 97 # 2 (Summer 2005), pages 374-375.<\/p>\n<p>Review of\u00a0<em>Constructing Heimat in Postwar Germany: Longing and Belonging<\/em>. Christopher J. Wickham. Edwin Mellen Press, 1998. In\u00a0<em>German Studies Review<\/em>, XXIII, 3, (1999) 654.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Invited Lectures (most recent)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFatih Akin\u2019s<em>\u00a0Edge of Heaven<\/em>\u00a0(Dis\/Connections),\u201d for Film Series at Buffalo State University, March 24, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOlfactory Depravity in Tykwer\u2019s Perfume,\u201d Introduction to Tom Tykwer\u2019s<em>\u00a0Perfume: The Story of a Murderer<\/em>\u00a0for Film series of German Cinema, Buffalo State University, April 23, 2009.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDysfunctional Dining Table in the Films of R. W. Fassbinder,\u201d University of Calgary, October 5, 2006.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd in His Arms the Child was Dead,\u201d Introduction to Volker Schl\u00f6ndorff\u2019s\u00a0<em>Der Unhold<\/em>, \u201c for Film series on German Cinema, Buffalo State University, April 20, 2006.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Das Boot<\/em>: Identifying the Enemy,\u201d University of the South, April 6, 2004.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Mephisto<\/em>: Heinrich\u2019s Clown\u201d for Film series on German Cinema, Buffalo State University, April 27, 2004.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fellowships<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NEH Summer Seminar Fellowship, &#8220;German Literary Existentialism,&#8221; National<br \/>\nEndowment for the Humanities, U. Of Minnesota, Summer 1977.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Lecturer Grant, U.S. and German Fulbright Commission, 1984-1985.<\/p>\n<p>NEH Summer Seminar Fellowship, &#8220;Cinema in Nazi Germany,&#8221; National Endowment for the\u00a0 Humanities, Cornell University, Summer, 1996.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courses Taught (in addition to German language courses)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>European Cinema<br \/>\nGerman Cinema<br \/>\nWorld of the German Speaker (interactive television course)<br \/>\nFassbinder (a Hauptseminar [graduate level course] in Germany)<br \/>\nFilm im Dritten Reich (Cinema in the Third Reich,\u00a0 a Proseminar, In Germany)<br \/>\nEuropean Cinema\/Hollywood Film Comparison<br \/>\nFilm and Society (undergraduate course for general education)<br \/>\nFilm and Identity (graduate course in Liberal Studies)<br \/>\nAmerikas Selbstbild in den Filmen Hollywoods (America\u2019s self image in Hollywood film, a seminar in Germany)<br \/>\nFilm Subtitling (For Certificate in Translation Program)<em id=\"__mceDel\">\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography Dr. Reimer is Director of the Film Studies Program, a former Chair of the Department of Languages and Culture Studies and currently teaches full time in the Department. \u00a0In 2013-2015, he served as\u00a0an exchange professor to the Universit\u00e9 de Limoges in Limoges, France. 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